Shade or curtain holding fixture



@et 23, E923. L-Z D w. RUSSELL I SHADE OR CURTAIN HOLDING FIXTURE Filed DeG.-,'51 1917 Patented @et ,233, 1923..

UNVEDD DONALD XV. RUSSELL, OF JEFFERSON, IOWA.

SHADE R CURTAIN HOLDING FIXTURE.

Application led December 31, 1917. Serial No. 209,768.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, DONALD lll. RUSSELL, citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Jefferson, Greene County, iowa, have invented a new and useful Shade or Curtain Holding Fixture, of which the following is a specification.

An object of this invention is to provide improved means for supporting a shade roller or curtain rod while the same is being raised or lowered.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 a side elevation showing my improved devices mounted as required for practical use. Figure 3 is a cross-section on the indicated line 3 3 of Figure 1. Figures 4 and 5 are plan views, on an enlarged scale, of clips and pulleys employed in the device, cables being shown thereon. Figures 6 and 7 are detail rear and end elevations respectively of a winding d rum, housing and cable employed in the device, shown on an enlarged scale.

In the construction and mounting of the device as shown the numerals 10, 11 designate the interior 'face casings and 12 the interior head casing of a window frame, the same being shown conventionally. Squarearched guides 13, 14 are mounted in parallel upright positions on and are secured at their ends to the face casings 10, 11 and the body portions of said guides are parallel with and spaced from the faces of said casings. A hanger, composed of flat metal bars 15, 15a, one of which is formed throughout a portion of its length with turned edges forming guideways in which the other bar is received whereby said bars are adapted to be mounted in longitudinally-sliding relation with each other, is pro-vided and eyes 16, 16a are mounted in outer end portions of said bars and embrace and are adapted to slide on the body portions of the guides 13, 14. Ears 17, 17EL are formed on and eX- tend laterally from the outer ends of the bars 15, 1521 and said ears are formed, respectively, with a means 'for supporting one end of a curtain rod or shade roller (not shown); such means in this instance being represented by a notch 18 in the ear 17 adapted to receive one end member of a shade roller of common form, the other ear being formed with a round hole (not shown) in a common manner. Cables 19, 19 are attached to the bars 15, 15a adjacent the eyes 16, 16 and extend upwardly therefrom.` around pulleys 20, 202L mounted on the head casing 12. The cable 19u extends along the front of the head casing 12 and around a pulley 20h. The pulley4 20Z1 is pivoted in a clip 21 iiXed to the head casing 12 and the pulleys 2O and 2Gb are pivoted side by side in a clip 21a, of greater length than the clip 21, also ixed to said head casing. The pulley 20b is of slightly greaterdiameter than the pulley 20 and the pulley 202L and its clip may be set at a slightly greater altitude than the clip 21aM to permit the cable 19- to extend across the cable 19 without contact therewith. The cables 19, 19a extend downwardly along the ront face of the casing 10 side by side and are attached to and adapted to be wound on a drum 22 pivoted in a housing 23 fixed to the outer face of the lower end portion of the casing 10. rlhe cables 19, 19tL may be separate or may be portions of a single cable having its intermediate portion engaged by a pin 22il projecting radially from the drum 22 within the housing 23. The drum 22 is 'formed with a crank 22b on one end and also is adapted for reciprocation in its seats in the ends of the housing. The drum 22 also is formed with a pin 22C outside of and adjacent to an end 23a of the housing 23, which pin is adapted to engage at times with an inclined lug 23b formed in and struck out from said end 23. An eX- pansive coil spring 24 is mounted on the drum 22 and impinges at opposite ends in the inner face of the end 23ad of the housing and a pin 22d mounted in and projecting from said drum and spaced from said end. It is the function of the spring 24 to press the drum 22 longitudinally and, normally, hold the pin 22c in the plane of the inclined lug 23h, thereby preventing accidental unwinding of the cables from the drum.

ln practical use a shade roller, or other device, may be mounted on the ears 17, 17a of the hanger and be raised and lowered with said hanger by manipulation of the drum. During the operation of winding the cables to raise the hanger and device carried thereby the drum is manipulated so that the pin 22c rides over the inclined lug 23h and is in position to be engaged and stopped by said lugwhenever manual force is relaxed andthe cablesV tend to unwind from the drum because of the Weight of the hanger. During the operation of unwinding the cables to lower the hanger, the drum is moved longitudinally by hand against the pressure of the spring 24 so as to permit the pin 22C to pass freely over the inclined lug 23a.

l do not desire to be understood as limit* ing myself to the construction and arrange nient oi' parts as shown and described, as

the same may be modified Without departing from my invention.

I claim as my invention- A. shade or curtain holding fixture comprising flat metal bars, one of which is formed throughout a portion of its length with turned edges forming guideways ink gral ears, said ears being formed with means for supporting a shade-roller, and eyes fixed tothe respective bars adjacent to and between said ears, said eyes having their openings in the same horizontal plane and adapted to receive and have sliding engagement with suitable guides.

Signed by me at Des Moines, lowa, this lifteenth day of December, 1916.

DGNALD W. RUSSELL. 

